In our first keynote session, international HR guru Angela Atkins will cover off what factors make up the culture of a company, different ways that you can measure culture and then practical tools and techniques for what you can personally do to create the right culture in your business as an HRA.

Morning tea 10.30 - 11am

11am - 12.45pm: 3 Real Culture Stories: How did they do it?

Our panel of HR Directors will outline how different HR teams have worked through building culture in their businesses and their key learnings that you can use. You’ll also get the chance to work though a Q&A session to ask any burning questions you have.

Lunch 12.45 - 1.45pm

Workshop Sessions:

We spend the afternoon working through some operational areas of HR but also talk about how you can use them to change your culture.

Workshop 1: Disicplinary and Dismissals. Your HR policies and how you work through disciplinary meeting and dismissals can have a huge impact on engagement, peformance and culture. In this workshop you’ll work through how to do it properly including case studies, analyse what steps to take, and get tips on how to handle the challenges and advise managers effectively.

Workshop 2: Rolling out HR initiatives. If you’re involved in HR projects, this workshop will give you practical tools to use to get your intiatives to stick, including if you are trying to work through culture change!

5pm - Day 1 ends. Drinks and nibbles until 7pm.

Conference Agenda: Day 2

9am start

9am - 10am: Creative Thinking for HR

You’ve got some ideas on how you could deliver HR differently, but you need some ideas on how to get managers engaged with this. In our first session of the day you’ll learn how creativity works, and how you can tap into this to turbo boost your HR initiatives and use this with your managers to upskill and get them engaged.

Workshop Sessions:

We then focus on 2 further areas of operational HR:

Workshop 3: HR Metrics. In this workshop you will cover different ideas to measure HR issues and performance in your business as well as how to set measures for your HR delivery.

Workshop 4: Tools to take people through change. This workshop gives you some useful models to help take others through change, whether you’re introducting a new system, new processes or culture change.

Lunch 12 - 1pm

1pm - 1.45pm: Employment Law update.

We start our afternoon off with an employment law update on legislation and case law changes that you need to know about so you get the foundations right. And you’ll get to ask any curly questions you have.

1.45 - 3pm: HR Innovation around the world

You’ll now hear about some amazing transformative and innovative HR initiatives that companies are using from all over the world, to change what HR delivers! Perry Timms is a superstar of the HR innovation world and will be presenting this.

3pm - 3.30pm: Action Planning Session

To finish the conference, we’ll have round table discussions about what actions you can take to be culture champions, and capture the learnings from the 2 days.

Conference finish 3.30pm

The HR Advisors Conference 2016: Being Culture Champions

WE HAD A FABULOUS 2 DAYS IN LONDON IN OCTOBER 2016. HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED:

In 2016 we had a fantastic line up of inspiring and knowledgeable HR Directors, employment lawyers and other experts to share practical tips and techniques that you can use back on the job! Here’s who we heard from in 2016:

Some of the companies who attended:

Who organises the HR Advisors Conference?

#HRACONF17 has been organised by Elephant. Elephant is an HR training company that started in NZ in 2007 and in 2016 expanded into the UK. The team at Elephant are passionate about providing HR development that is practical, useful and fun and have trained over 2000 HR people in NZ and Australia.